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Man'yōshū and the imperial imagination in early Japan
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Man'yōshū and the imperial imagination in early Japan / by Torquil Duthie.
ISBN
9789004251717 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9004251715 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004264540 (e-book)
Publication
Leiden : Brill, 2014.
Physical Description
xviii, 443 pages ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 03, 2014
Series
Brill's Japanese studies library, volume 45
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Chronology of major events in the Nihon Shoki and Shoku Nihongi narratives
Part One. The literary representation of empire
Yamato as empire in the Sinoscript sphere
The national imagining of early Japan
The imperial configuration of Nihon
Imperial historiography and the narrative politics of the Jinshin Rebellion
Poetry anthology as imperial history
Part Two. Imperial poetry and the politics of the first person
The voice of all under heaven
Tenmu and the Yoshino cult
The Tenmu myth of heavenly descent
The memory of the Omi capital
The Fujiwara sovereign.
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